Similar comments have come up before. While I would consider the case the OP showed a bug -- more likely in the underlying C compiler than in the source code for Perl (see below) -- it is also fairly well known that floating point is, most emphatically, not isomorphic with real numbers. See, for some more information:

What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithme
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Source     ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) archive
Volume 23 ,  Issue 1  (March 1991) table of contents
Pages: 5 - 48  
Year of Publication: 1991
ISSN:0360-0300
Author     
David Goldberg      Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA

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The reason I would consider this behavior to be a bug is that it only occurs on one system. I'm blaming the C-compiler because I would expect the numerical processing code is among the least system-dependent parts of the Perl source.

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